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Athenian rhetorician and orator (436-338 BC)
Source: WordNetIsocrates main Isocrates (436-338 BC), like the sophists, taught public speaking as a means of human improvement, but he worked to distinguish himself from the Sophists, whom he saw as claiming far more than they could deliver. Source: Internet
As a rhetorician, he was a determined opponent of Isocrates and his school. Source: Internet
Aristotle and Isocrates were two of the first to see rhetoric in this light. Source: Internet
In fact, according to Isocrates, the Athenians and their allies lost some 20,000 men in the expedition. Source: Internet
In fact, Isocrates was an outspoken champion of rhetoric as a mode of civic engagement. Source: Internet
In Isocrates with an English Translation in three volumes, by George Norlin, Ph. Source: Internet